World’s First Liver Cancer 'Chemo-Bath'

World’s first liver cancer 'chemo-bath' which delivers toxic cancer drugs to just one organ in the body has been used on patients in UK for the first time.

World’s first liver cancer 'chemo-bath' which carries toxic cancer drugs to just one organ in the body has been used on patients in UK for the first time.

Chemotherapy drugs miraculously kill growing cancer cells but also have major side effects that attack the other parts of the body. World’s first liver cancer 'chemo-bath' will allow doctors to give higher doses of cancer killing drugs with minimal damage to the body.

Pushing the side effects to just one organ of the body can reduce a lot of damage in the body. Doctors at Southampton General Hospital believe that the 'chemo-bath' will be a success in curbing a lot of problems, the BBC reported.

Chemotherapy drugs are usually injected into the veins of cancer patients that exposes the patients whole body to the drugs. It results in a number of side effects like nausea , hair breakage, fertility complications and fatigue.

Two patients in UK have received the 'chemo-bath' , focusing just on their liver. both the patients are being treated for a rare eye cancer , which had spread to their liver.

The operation was carried by inflating balloons inside blood vessels on either side of the liver to separate it from the rest of the body. The liver was then filled with chemotherapy drugs, which was filtered out of the body before the liver was reconnected to the main blood supply.

The liver surgeries took place in the last couple of months and both the patients are healthier with their tumors gone down in size.

“To cut off an organ from the body for 60 minutes, soak it in a high dose of drug and then filter the blood almost completely...